Lesson Y9-U02-L08

Y9-U02-L08 A UK City Transformed: Regeneration in Manchester Quiz: KS3 Geography, Unit 14

20 questions

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Lesson Y9-U02-L08, A UK City Transformed: Regeneration in Manchester: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 Geography (National Curriculum), Unit 14: Year 9: Urban Worlds: Megacities, Growth and the Future of Cities, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. What does regeneration mean?

    • Closing down heavy industry so that the city's workers move to other regions.
    • Improving a rundown urban area to bring back jobs, people and investment.
    • Moving factories from cities to the countryside to reduce running costs.
    • Demolishing old buildings so the land stays empty until it is sold.

  2. What is a post-industrial city?

    • A city that is growing fastest because of new mining and quarrying work.
    • A city that has just built its first large factories and mills.
    • A city whose whole population has moved out to surrounding farmland.
    • A city whose old factories and heavy industry have closed down.

  3. Which two activities made Manchester rich in the 1800s?

    • Fishing and tourism along the coast of the region.
    • Cotton mills and the trade handled through its docks.
    • Car manufacturing and banking in the city centre.
    • Coal mining and steel making in the hills around the city.

  4. What is brownfield land?

    • Farmland on the edge of a city that has never been built on.
    • Newly built estates with empty plots still waiting to be sold.
    • Land already built on before that is now empty or derelict.
    • Land used only for parks, playing fields and public gardens.

  5. Which regenerated site in Salford is home to the BBC and ITV?

    • Castlefield Basin
    • The Northern Quarter
    • Spinningfields
    • MediaCityUK

  6. What is deindustrialisation?

    • The rise of service industries such as shops and offices in a city centre.
    • The movement of workers from one factory to another within a region.
    • The building of new factories on green fields outside a city.
    • The decline and closure of a region's factories and heavy industry.

  7. What is gentrification?

    • Moving factories and jobs out of a city into rural villages.
    • Building parks and gardens in a rundown inner-city area.
    • Turning old factories into museums to attract visitors from abroad.
    • Richer people moving into an area, raising prices and changing who lives there.

  8. Which of these is one of the four moves for comparing before-and-after maps?

    • Stating the type of change: social, economic or environmental.
    • Drawing a new contour line across the whole of the map.
    • Measuring the height of the tallest building on the map.
    • Counting how many houses were built in the last ten years.

  9. A derelict dock is turned into flats and offices. Is this regeneration?

    • No, because it builds on greenfield land outside the city.
    • Yes, because it reuses derelict brownfield land to bring back jobs and people.
    • No, because changing the use of a building never counts as regeneration.
    • Yes, because it closes the docks for ever and removes all shipping.

  10. Which change is an example of economic change caused by regeneration?

    • Long-term residents being priced out of their homes by higher rents.
    • Cleaner canals where fish return to the water.
    • New media and office jobs created at a former docks site.
    • New green space where a rundown warehouse once stood.

  11. Salford Docks closed in 1982. What was the main effect on the land beside the city centre?

    • It doubled the number of working docks along the river.
    • It left a huge derelict site next to the city centre.
    • It moved all local shipping traffic onto the city centre roads.
    • It created a national park for walkers and wildlife.

  12. Which event starts the chain that makes a city post-industrial?

    • Cheaper overseas factories undercut local industry.
    • Buildings are left empty and derelict across the centre.
    • Local mills and docks close down after losing trade.
    • Investors build new offices and flats on former docks.

  13. Why did the inner-city population of many post-industrial cities fall?

    • New schools and hospitals were built on all of the available land.
    • Mills and docks closed, so jobs were lost and families moved away.
    • Cheap overseas shipping brought more people to work in the docks.
    • The government moved all residents to new towns by law.

  14. Which statement correctly describes the difference between brownfield and greenfield land?

    • Brownfield land is always used for farming; greenfield land is always derelict.
    • Greenfield land is always in the city centre; brownfield is in the countryside.
    • Greenfield land is always polluted; brownfield land is always clean.
    • Brownfield land has been built on before; greenfield land has not.

  15. A council wants to reduce pressure on the countryside. Which choice best fits regeneration?

    • Leaving derelict mills empty and building only on the green belt.
    • Converting an empty cotton mill into apartments and cafes.
    • Moving all city offices to a new village in the hills.
    • Building 500 new homes on farmland at the edge of the city.

  16. Why did the city-centre population of many regenerated cities rise from the 1990s onwards?

    • People moved back to live near jobs and leisure in renovated areas.
    • Residents were moved out to villages far from their jobs and schools.
    • Farmland at the edge of the city was turned into coal mines.
    • Factories in the centre reopened and hired many new workers.

  17. Which impact of regeneration is a social impact?

    • Long-term residents being priced out by rising rents.
    • Old canals cleaned up and reopened for boats and walkers.
    • Derelict land reused rather than building on farmland.
    • New media and tech jobs created at MediaCityUK.

  18. A student says regeneration only improves how a city looks. Which evidence best challenges this?

    • Regeneration brought new jobs and cleaner waterways, not just new buildings.
    • Regeneration always makes every resident richer and happier.
    • Regeneration has no effect on jobs or the environment anywhere.
    • Regeneration only ever builds new roads and car parks.

  19. Why might regeneration of a city centre be judged only a partial success?

    • Because its benefits may be shared unevenly, with original residents priced out.
    • Because regeneration never creates any new jobs or homes at all.
    • Because population data always show a fall after regeneration.
    • Because derelict land is always left unused after it is redeveloped.

  20. A council says its city-centre regeneration scheme raised average house prices. Which judgement is most justified?

    • House prices fell, so the scheme must have failed completely.
    • Higher prices show the area changed, but not who gained or lost.
    • The scheme had no effect because prices never rise after regeneration.
    • The scheme must have helped every existing resident equally.

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